Freelance Editor/Writer/Writing Tutor
Current
Self-Employed
Somerville, Ma
Editing: Substantive editing, copy editing, proofreading, and research. Projects have included business reports, grant applications, books of fiction and poetry, online K-12 educational materials, dissertations, cover letters, letters of recommendation, and scholarly books and articles.Academic writing: Four conference papers presented at conferences in Medford, Massachusetts; Bloomington, Indiana; and Mayaguez, Puerto Rico (details available on request). One guest blog entry at Voltage Poetry. Dissertation in progress at Tufts University. Areas of focus include eighteenth-century literature, libertinism, disability studies, and mental illness in literature.Creative writing: Forty-seven poems and two book reviews in journals including Ploughshares, Pleiades, and The Yale Review; poems in 6 anthologies, including The New Young American Poets (Southern Illinois University Press, 2000), Under the Rock Umbrella (Mercer University Press, 2006), Villanelles (Everyman, 2012), and Obsession: Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century (Dartmouth College Press, 2014); and an untitled Web chapbook published by The Literary Review (TLR) in 1998. Numerous poetry readings in the St. Louis, Washington, DC, and Boston areas.Tutoring: Ethical, client-centered in-person and online writing tutoring for adults and teenagers, including homework assignments, test preparation, dissertations, and application essays.